Pol Pot was born Saloth Sar on 19 May 1925 in Kompong Thong province in central Cambodia. The country was then a French protectorate and Pol Pot, whose family were relatively prosperous ...

Under draft legislation announced last week, anyone denying “the truth of the bitter past” could be imprisoned for up to five ...

Twenty-seven years ago, as Pol Pot’s ashes were dumped in a remote paddock, Cambodia was the basket case of Southeast Asia, struggling with genocide and three decades of civil war that was still being ...

Pol Pot and his henchmen inflicted unprecedented carnage, genocide, forced labor camps, and sickness, claiming about 2 million lives, or about a third of this country’s population, after seizing ...

First drawn to communism while studying in France during the 1950’s, Saloth Sar - better known as Pol Pot - is known as one of the most ruthless and despised leaders in modern history. This haunting ...

Ponchaud’s 1977 book “Cambodge, année zero” was one of the first detailed accounts of the horrors that unfolded after the ...

Through photographing her own family and others’, the Cambodian-American photographer attempts to unpack the complex layers ...

Cambodia's government approved a draft law that will jail for five years anyone denying atrocities, including genocide, ...

Under the law, Khmer Rouge deniers can be charged and jailed for terms of one-five years and subjected to fines of US$2,500 ...

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on June 20 attended a ceremony marking the 45th anniversary of Cambodian PM Hun Sen’s journey to overthrow the Pol Pot genocidal regime, held in Memot district of ...

In response, Pol Pot insists that erasing the malign effects of Western imperialism and remaking a society requires harsh ...

A chilling historical drama rendered with impeccable sleight of hand, Rithy Panh’s “Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot” (“Meeting With Pol Pot”) reveals its political dimensions through layers of ...